Tuesday, August 14, 2012

人生思考之作文

少时语文成绩差,一路差来,终致高考作文跑了题。归其原因有三,第一:结构严密的论述性文章读的太少;第二:从不做深度思考,认为语文本身缺乏逻辑性是一门背诵模仿的学科;第三也是最重要的一点:系统性的书写训练严重匮乏,以至于我把日记做为一种科普性的读物来记,不是大段的抄写体育报道就是根据自己粗略的统计数字做关联性的总结。不堪回首啊。

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

与老婆诗 -苍蝇加锉.小新

与老婆诗 -苍蝇加锉.小新

相见如果不相恋,保你回家开商店。
相知如果不相思,保你回家做白痴。
相伴如果不相欠,保你回家吃闲饭。
相惜如果不相忆,保你回家去种地。
相爱如果敢相弃,保你满街捡垃圾。
相对如果不相会,保你喝酒你就醉。
相误接连又相负,保你今夜睡马路。
相许如果不相续,保你只能拉大锯。
相依如果不相偎,保你天天感觉累。
相遇如果不相聚,保你工作弹棉絮。 
既然相见即相思,赶快回家过日子。
整天和你混一起,从来不用作相思 

Thursday, December 30, 2010

上进心和傻

有上进心的人都有点儿“傻气”,至少是在那些有点小聪明的人眼里。为什么说他们有点“傻气”? 因为他们看的不全是当下,而是押宝于未来。众所周知,未来的一个最重要的物理特性就是不确定性,你把宝压在了极具不确定性的东西上而不是眼下大捞“真金白银”的“机会”,你说你傻不傻?又为什么说看的不全是当下呢?因为不全是等于还是要看一点。人作为一个物体存在于一个物理的世界里,精神和肉体上的基本需求还是必须得到保证的。这也是你能够押宝于未来的基础吧。

一个公司的两个雇员,一个是干多少活儿拿多少钱,你想锻炼我,让我去负责一个我不熟悉的领域?对不起,这点儿工资好像对不上号儿吧!相反另一位,在自己本职工作作的很好的情况下,积极接受新的,对自己日后发展有帮助的新任务。给不给额外的工资不重要,重要的是公司给了我一个实战锻炼的机会,一个对自己日后发展有益的挑战。这两个雇员一个聪明一个“傻”,一个只看眼前,一个积极打造未来。

都说创业者要有点“傻气”。他们的执著,倔强,坚持在他们没有成功的时候统统被诠释成了”傻”。在他们成功以后,他们的“傻”又被重新包装成了“上进心”。看来有上进心的人是有股子“傻气”的。

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

普洱茶小议

何为普洱茶?普洱茶出自云南,但云南茶并不都是普洱茶,除普洱外还有滇红(红茶的一种)和环形的碧螺春(绿茶但为大叶种)较为出名.云南茶为大叶种,虽曾试种过小叶种但是并不成功,随后弃种,今天滇茶绝大部分为大叶种.这也间接解释了为什么滇碧螺春需卷成几圈而成环状(通常国货中的碧螺春泛指东山碧螺春为小叶种绒毛状).而今天一想到云南的茶,第一个就会想到的是普洱茶.

对大部分北方人来说,普洱茶就是那种颜色红黑,压成饼状,咋一闻有霉陈味,冲泡起来色泽象红葡萄酒,而冲后茶渣较碎的茶. 其实普洱有生熟之分.前面描述的是熟茶的典型特征.生茶也可压成饼状,成青色,闻之有一股青茶的干爽味道,喝时的口感也和青茶相适. 饮后,生茶回甘而熟茶回甜. 普洱茶有四型,砖,陀,饼,散,也就是通常的散茶了. 好的散茶应为芽制,而压饼时必须要加些叶进去,否则不易压成型. 散茶由于是散开的,不象其他压紧的茶可以内部产生温度帮助持续发酵.所以散茶存储升值的空间比砖,饼和坨要小的多.

买茶时要一看,二闻,三喝. 不喝不买,买就买自己亲自尝过的那一饼. 看要看压紧的茶是否有杂质,一般全为叶和芽为佳,里面要是有大个头的杆梗,一定不是好茶. 闻的是茶要陈而不霉. 普洱茶不是花茶或绿茶,的香是陈香,低调但舒心,持久,平和. 就生茶熟茶来讲, 生熟自便,但是如果你想体会那种日复一日看着普洱茶饼慢慢发酵变醇的感觉,推荐你买生饼. 生为生,熟为熟. 生茶一世为生, 熟茶一世为熟. 熟茶为人工发酵,而生茶数年甚至数十年的自然发酵达到和熟茶一样的色泽,但还是称为生茶.象茅台酒入窖前需要勾兑. 普洱茶,无论是上品还是假货,也都需要几种不同的生毛茶掺兑在一起制成的.而勾兑的秘方也往往成了决定一种普洱茶好坏的因素之一. 普洱熟茶的味道还不能完全接受的人群,建议买上好的宫廷普洱.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Temptation resisted?

A temptation to you as a human being is driven by motives and desires for the certain object or activity that creates it.

One way to resist the temptation is to create a more profound and stronger motive and/or desire for the negative results, rather than the positive results caused by taking the temptation. For example, a freshly-made cannoli generates enough temptation for a pasty lover like me, the results of eating the cannoli is,

  • Positively, I enjoyed the taste, the texture, the culture that Italians created cannoli with. 
  • Negatively, the sugar, fat and salt that comes with the consumption of the pastry will do no good to your body.

My desire for killer abs, stronger muscle and overall personal health completely outbid the desire for eating a cannoli even though it is fresh. Hence temptation for cannoli is completed destroyed.

Having recently read an essay from Arthur Schopenhauer, my point seems inline with his view on crime and punishment,

People, according to Schopenhauer, cannot be improved. They can only be influenced by strong motives that overpower criminal motives. 

while he talked about crime and punishment, I am taking cannoli vs killer abs, completely different subject, but same philosophy behind. 

Friday, October 15, 2010

What is Cloud in everyone's mouth?

It is hottest buzzword in town - from superweight IT firms to hosting companies, from CTOs to start-up entrepreneurs. All of sudden, everyone is talking about their service is offered from a Cloud architecture as if they were hosted previously underground.

So after diffusing all the fuzz from marketing brochures, what is my understanding of Cloud in today's IT service industry?

1) You gotta have a broadband connection to enjoy the fruit;
2) You submit a input to and receive a desirable from you-don't-know-what-or-how service over the Internet;
3) Your typical desktop applications are now offered from the Cloud - i.e. without an Internet connection, your laptop or PC is pretty much business function free;
4) your typical desktop functions like hard drive storage is now offered from the Cloud - e.g. dropbox;


Want to build a business into this hot buzzword? Just try to convert an application into a web service run over HTTP/HTTPS, that otherwise would have been installed and running on your PC.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Stories of Offshore Business Center

An offshore business center, above all others, usually provide these benefits to its registered business,
  • Asset protection
  • privacy and confidentiality of company owner
  • taxation benefits

So how do these three work together to benefit a business owner? Here is an example of how.

Mr Junk Debris is an insurance broker running a business in Sydney, Australia. All of his business operations are based in Australia and all the revenue are derived there too. His salary is between 80,000 and 100,000 which is rather ordinary for someone who owns and operates a lucrative business like insurance brokerage. However, he lives extraordinary daily lifestyle, i.e.
  • residing a mansion renting at 10,000 a month
  • enjoying a private jet and a state-of-art cruiser
  • schooling his offspring in a renowned private school
  • and understandably heavy maintenance bills to support a lifestyle like that

Unfortunately for his clients, his business bankrupted (well, I suppose he is not an entrepreneur who wants to change the world, but rather someone who wants to enjoy a lifestyle that depends on other people's money). But anyway, his business bankrupted and so is he himself.

Fortunately for Mr Junk, his residential mansion was not confiscated for the creditors. Of course not, he was only renting it. But the truth is he is renting a mansion that is owned by him and the court can not get proof of it in order to support the confiscation. How does he manage to achieve that?

He registered a company in Marshall Islands - Junkyard Investment Trust. By local jurisdiction, his name is kept away from public probation - privacy and confidentiality that most of IBC offers. The mansion was bought by Junkyard and therefore owned by Mr Junk. He then rented from Junkyard whilst enjoyed the tax benefits. When his Sydney assets get seized for liquidation, his mansion had to be exempted because no one can prove it is Mr Junk's property without obtaining paperwork from Marshall Islands. You know Marshall Islands will not supply the paperwork, complying with its own jurisdictions.